The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 13]

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIII

Preface........ 9
Relacion de las Islas Filipinas (concluded).
Pedro Chirino, S.J.; Roma, I604... 27
Documents of I604
Letters to Felipe III. Pedro de Acuina;
Manila, July 15 and 19.... 22
Decrees regarding religious orders. Felipe
III, and others; Valladolid, FebruaryJuly........ 246
Grant to the Jesuit seminary at Cebui.
Pedro Chirino; [undated; I604?].. 251
Decree regulating commerce with Nueva
Espafia. Felipe III; Valladolid, December 31........ 256
Documents of i605
Complaints against the Chinese. Miguel de
Benavides, and others; Manila, February
3-9.......271
Letter from a Chinese official to Acufia.
Chincheo, March..... 287
Letters from Augustinian friars to Felipe
III. Estevan Carillo, and others; Manila, May 4-June 20... 292
Letter to Felipe III. Antonio de Ribera
Maldonado; Manila, June 28.. 307
Bibliographical Data...... 317

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